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The Loyalist's Son: Love, Loyalty, and the Legacy of the Northern Ireland Troubles
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Series: Stories from the Troubles
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Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 15 2026
Pages: 274
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.68 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
He was raised to inherit a war that officially ended years ago.
She is the daughter of the man convicted for killing his uncle.
On the Eleventh Night in Belfast, Jamie McKeown stands beside the bonfire that has defined his family for generations. His father is a respected loyalist figure. His path is expected.
But when Jamie burns the balaclava meant for his face, he sets something else alight.
Leah Donnelly should never have spoken to him. Her father served time for a bombing that tore Jamie's family apart. Their names do not belong in the same sentence, let alone the same future.
Yet in the neutral spaces of the city centre and inside a boxing gym built from another man's regret, they begin something neither of them were raised to allow.
As old alliances stir and anonymous warnings close in, Jamie is forced to confront a truth buried beneath slogans and speeches: the past did not end. It just changed shape.
To love her means breaking with everything he was taught to protect.
To walk away means becoming exactly what he was expected to be.
In a city where names travel and history never quite burns out, one choice could ignite everything.
A gripping Belfast novel about inherited loyalty, forbidden love, and what happens when the next generation refuses to carry the fight.
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